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<td style="width:375px;height:318px"><font size="3"><b>PhD Student</b><br>
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<font size="3"><b>E-Mail:</b><br>
hamoun&lt;@&gt;cse.yorku.ca<br>
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York University<br>
4700 Keele Street<br>
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3<br>
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<b>Supervisor:</b></font>

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<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/ceraslabs.com/ceraslabs2/people/dr-marin-litoiu">Dr. Marin Litoiu</a></font>
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<h1><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/ceraslabs.com/ceraslabs2/people/hamoun-ghanbari/hamoun-resume">My Resume</a>, my PhD qualifying exam report (<a href="http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~hamoun/qual/">html</a>,<a href="http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~hamoun/qualpdf/qual.pdf">pdf</a>)</span></h1>
<h1>Education</h1>

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<li>York University, Toronto, Canada

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<li>Currently studying for PhD degree in Computer Science, since 2008
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<li>Supervisor: Prof. Marin Litoiu 
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<li>Topic: Autonomic Mechanisms in Cloud Computing Ecosystems 
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<li>Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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<li>M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2006-2008
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<li>Supervisor: Dr. Constantinos Constantinides
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<li>Thesis Topic:  A Hybrid Query Engine for the Structural Analysis of Java and Aspect J Programs 
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<li>Shahid Beheshti University of Technology(SBU), Tehran, Iran

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<li>B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Software, Jan 2005
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Areas of Interest
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<li>Academic Interests:

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<li>Grid/Cloud/High Performance Distributed Computing
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<li>Adaptive Systems and Control Theory 
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<li>Knowledge-based Expert systems
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<li>Statistical Machine Learning, Text Processing, Data Mining
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<li>Programming languages
 
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Publications
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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_tuning_____">1</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, M.&nbsp;Woodside, T.&nbsp;Zheng, J.&nbsp;Wong, G.&nbsp;Iszlai, 
 <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/tracking.pdf">
  Tuning tracking of performance model parameters using dynamic job classes
  </a> , in:
  Proceedings of the second ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance
  Engineering (ICPE 2011), to appear, ACM, 2011.

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<dt><a name="cornel_barna_model-based_2011">2</a>
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C.&nbsp;Barna, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, 
<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6032540">
Model-based performance testing: NIER track
  </a>, in: Proceeding of the 33rd international conference on Software
  engineering, ACM, Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2011, pp. 872-875.

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<dt><a name="cornel_barna_autonomic_2011">3</a>
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C.&nbsp;Barna, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, 
<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1998598">
Autonomic load-testing framework
 </a> , in:
  Proceedings of the 8th ACM international conference on Autonomic computing,
  ACM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011, pp. 91-100.

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<dt><a name="ghanbari_feedback-based_____">4</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, B.&nbsp;Simmons, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, G.&nbsp;Iszlai,  
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X11001014" target="">
	Feedback-based optimization of a private cloud </a>
   , Future Generation Computer Systems In Press, Corrected Proof.
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doi:doi: 10.1016/j.future.2011.05.019.

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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_exploring_2011">5</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, B.&nbsp;Simmons, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, G.&nbsp;Iszlai, 
 <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/exploring.pdf"> Exploring alternative approaches
  to implement an elasticity policy</a>, in: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE
  International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE, Washington DC, USA,
  2011.

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<dt><a name="bradley_simmons_managing_2011">6</a>
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B.&nbsp;Simmons, H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, G.&nbsp;Iszlai, 
<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6103960&isnumber=6103944">
Managing a SaaS application in the cloud using PaaS policy sets and a Strategy-Tree </a>
, in: Proceedings of
  the 7th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service (CNSM),
  IEEE, Paris, France, 2011.

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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_feedback-based_2010">7</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, B.&nbsp;Simmons, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, G.&nbsp;Iszlai, 
 <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/Ghanbari-opt-centralized.pdf" target="">
Feedback-based optimization of a private cloud
</a>, in: International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing,
  Chennai, India, 2010.
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doi:doi: 10.1016/j.future.2011.05.019.

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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_identifying_2009">8</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, M.&nbsp;Litoiu, 
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/ghanbari09self-tuning.pdf" target="">
Identifying implicitly declared Self-Tuning behavior
  through dynamic analysis,</a> in: ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for
  Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, IEEE, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2009,
  pp. 48-55.

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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_algebraic_2008">9</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, C.&nbsp;Constantinides, <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/GhanbariVisualBrowsing08.pdf" target="">
 An algebraic query method for static program analysis and measurement
 </a>, 17th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2008).

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<dt><a name="hamoun_ghanbari_hybrid_2008">10</a>
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H.&nbsp;Ghanbari, C.&nbsp;Constantinides, V.&nbsp;Arnaoudova, <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60605619/ghanbari-hybridQuery.pdf" target="">A hybrid query engine for the
  structural analysis of java and AspectJ programs</a>, Proceedings of the 15th
  Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008) (2008) 133-137.</dd>
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